I am new to Zapier and have done several trainings and am working on creating a zap to take an attachment from Gmail (based on specified criteria) and save the attachment to OneNote in a specified section. I’ve been working on the Zap & have all the pieces except having a document saved to OneNote. I get a link that if I copy & paste will open the pdf but would like it to show the document (see screenshots). Any guidance or suggestions much appreciated!
Here is my result - can copy link & get to document
Ideally, I would like an attached PDF file like this:
Here is my Zap & the OneNote configuration:
A note is created in OneNote but does not contain the attachment - I have tried other attachment fields in the Content but still not working.
Best answer by Badger
@Auds
I don’t believe it is possible to upload a file from a Zap directly to OneNote.
We would need the binary file to do this, which I don’t believe is available to us through Zapier.
We can workaround this by uploading the file to a storage solution OneDrive or Google Drive then send the url as HTML link <a href=’your-file-url”> “your-file-name” </a> rather than text in the content type. This would give us a clickable link inside OneNote to the file for downloading.
I am unsure how persistent the Zapier dev files links are, so would recommend you looked at uploading it directly to your own storage solution.
We would need the binary file to do this, which I don’t believe is available to us through Zapier.
We can workaround this by uploading the file to a storage solution OneDrive or Google Drive then send the url as HTML link <a href=’your-file-url”> “your-file-name” </a> rather than text in the content type. This would give us a clickable link inside OneNote to the file for downloading.
I am unsure how persistent the Zapier dev files links are, so would recommend you looked at uploading it directly to your own storage solution.
Thanks so much @Badger - appreciate that information! I will look into the workaround using Google Drive.
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